Suffering Quotations | Page 5

Every audience has its character; I like America - they love me. I suffer from stage fright, but in America not so much.

Mainly I'm a vegan because I like animals, and I don't want to be involved in their suffering. Also, it's better for my health and for the environment.

Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.

Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy

It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

I suffer panic attacks which has made me really conscious about my fitness and I have become addicted to jogging. It might sound odd but a lot of good has come out of it. My fans send letters saying they have taken up jogging because I do it.

When you are working really hard and you're really focused on your career, a lot of other things suffer.

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher - and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.

I've always known that sporting people frequently suffer from joint problems because of the repeated strain they put on their bodies to get to the top. But somehow I never thought it would happen to me.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

One way to make a baby cry is to expose it to cries of other babies. There's sort of contagiousness to the crying. It's not just crying. We also know that if a baby sees another human in silent pain, it will distress the baby. It seems part of our very nature is to suffer at the suffering of others.

I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.

It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is wrong. If it's our own suffering, we try to hide it or isolate ourselves. If others are suffering, we're taught to put them away somewhere so we don't have to see it.

It is no longer acceptable to ignore the suffering, and designers must take responsibility for the way that their fur is produced.

There's nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how much we ultimately need God.

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.

Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.

Why don't Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering.

It is a great thing to be a child of God, and joint-heir with Jesus Christ. If this is your privilege, you will know the fellowship of Christ's sufferings.

If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.

My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.

Many of the lessons we are to learn in mortality can only be received through the things we experience and sometimes suffer. And God expects and trusts us to face temporary mortal adversity with His help so we can learn what we need to learn and ultimately become what we are to become in eternity.

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

I suffer from peroxide phobia. Every time I've gotten near a blond woman, something of mine has disappeared. Jobs, boyfriends... one time an angora sweater leaped right off my body.

Only liberals know how to make you freer on the job, which is where most of us suffer the gravest indignities in our lives.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.

Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe.

One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.

I don't think Wayne Rooney would be affected if you booed him, that's just how he is, but others go under. They really suffer with it. I think I'm somewhere in the middle... now. I've become tougher as I've got older.

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

In Egypt, every family is suffering from the deteriorated schooling and university system of the Mubarak regime. What families want most of all is to secure a good education for their children.

If we have a very strong commitment, so that we can trust ourselves and be beacons of trust for others no matter what the circumstance, then we're protected from suffering the consequences of many actions. We can be protected from that pain.

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

I think viewers quite like it when I'm suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.

When you see how you react when you suffer that's when you know what you are made of.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would be suffering the moral paralysis of 'white guilt.' But the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe.

We have to see that we're a part of each other, and we have to take care of each other. The reason why they have universal health care in Canada and Britain, these other places? Because they believe if one suffers, everybody suffers.

For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be himself for you.

Indeed, there is nothing like suffering to remind us how much we need God. What good news that His purpose and plan for our lives moves in a different direction from ours!

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.

I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.

It is easy to respect secular Americans who hold fast to the Constitution and to American values generally. And any one of us who believes in God can understand why some people, given all the unjust suffering in the world, just cannot believe that there is a Providential Being.

Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.

You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

I don't suffer of anything that I've lost.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.

Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.

I can no longer walk. I can no longer swim. But I'm lucky when I see how animals suffer.

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that's nothing.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer.

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.

Fires of suffering and strife are raging around the world.

Deem no man happy until he passes the edo fhis life without suffering grief.

I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.

If you are suffering from your intemperance in eating or in drinking, we that are around you, or associated with you, are affected by your infirmities. We have to suffer on account of the course you pursue, which is wrong. If it has an influence to lessen your powers of mind or body, we are affected by it.

Tis better to suffer wrong than do it

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.

Every day, we at the United Nations see the human toll of an absence of regulations or lax controls on the arms trade. We see it in the suffering of civilian populations trapped by armed conflict or pervasive crime. We see it in the killing and wounding of civilians - including children, the most vulnerable of all.

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.